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...Bush knows, the best way to sell the cuts is to show "how they benefit children, families and workers," says a top Senate GOP aide. And so the wealthy - who would get the lion's share of tax relief under Bush's plan - were kept out of sight last week. Instead, Bush flew in middle-class "tax families," with little girls in velvet dresses and boys in penny loafers. Best prop for the cameras: a single-mom waitress with two kids making $32,000 a year. (She would get $1,500 back from the government, according to Bush.) Asked...
...last gasp of liberalism," replies White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. Republican polling indicates that as the economy cools, middle-class Americans are warming to Bush's plan - even if the rich get richer. "They want a tax cut," says GOP pollster David Winston, "to help the economy so it enhances their job security." Democrats sense this as well, so they're fortifying their attacks with a tax cut of their own. They'll dump the "targeted" tax cuts Gore pushed during the campaign, which "were a mistake," says California representative Ellen Tauscher, new vice chair of the centrist Democratic Leadership...
...library remained a secret. Officers of the $150 million project have refused to divulge their funding sources, but Denise Rich's lawyer, Carol Elder Bruce, fueled speculation when she told House investigators, as they recalled it, that her client gave an "enormous sum of money" to it. The GOP probers want to know if any of the funds originated with Marc Rich and asked Denise Rich to answer questions for a Government Reform Committee hearing Thursday...
...happens all right, though the consensus is that it probably didn't happen this time. Almost no one, from White House correspondents to GOP advisers, is buying the "mistake" line. Instead, this is widely perceived as a case of political short-sightedness that the Bush team was able to pull away from before it caused any real damage. "Somebody woke up over there and said, 'Whoa, wait a second. This is contrary to Bush being the unifier he wants to be,'" Republican strategist Jim Innocenzi told Thursday?s USA Today...
...Democrats, of course, don't have a p.r. master like Bill Clinton to kick the GOP around anymore - and you can see it in their faces. But they've still got a tight House, a split Senate, and a general feeling that Bush doesn't quite have Americans sold on this...